London Newswire Archive

30-05-2008 23:16

Party on the tube tomorrow

Well it’s a shame that they didn’t have the guts to organise this when the tube booze ban was actually in force but it should be given a plug anyway. Read more >>

30-05-2008 17:17

Anti-racism Public meeting 31 May 2008, 1pm

On Saturday 31 May 2008, from 1pm, there will be Public meeting at the Friends Meeting House (Quakers House, opposite the central Library), 6 Mount Street, Manchester. Read more >>

30-05-2008 16:42

Benefit for Haringey MIND Tonight Friday 30th May 8.30 – 11.30pm

Benefit for Haringey MIND Tonight Friday 30th May 8.30 – 11.30pm Read more >>

30-05-2008 14:17 | 1 addition

Binyam Mohamed’s letter from Guantánamo to Gordon Brown

As the US administration prepares to charge British resident Binyam Mohamed in a Military Commission at Guantánamo, Andy Worthington reports on his last-minute appeal to Prime Minster Gordon Brown to intervene on his behalf. Read more >>

29-05-2008 19:43 | 1 addition

Support the imprisoned activists & hunger strikers in Austria

PRESS RELEASE: 14 persons charged, 10 arrested, 5 on hunger strike.
Dated: Thursday 29th May 2008 Read more >>

29-05-2008 19:14

TU Certification Office investigating Solidarity

Criminal charges to follow? Read more >>

29-05-2008 16:23

Home Secretary told “end police surveillance of journalists” - NUJ

The NUJ has called for Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to put an end to police surveillance of journalists. Read more >>

29-05-2008 14:37

Gentrification and resistance, from NY to London

A report about a London meeting featuring Juan Haro, an activist from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a movement fighting displacement of poor residents by housing corporations in East Harlem, New York Read more >>

29-05-2008 11:41

May 31 | 2012 Workshop & Action Reminder

Come | Forward ! Read more >>

29-05-2008 10:25

GTMO actions in London:Picnic tomorrow/Public Meeting on Sat. & June demos

Tomorrow (Friday 30 May), the London Guantánamo Campaign is holding a picnic in Grosvenor Square next to the US Embassy at 3-6pm with People in Common/On Saturday 31 May, we have a public meeting to raise awareness about Binyam Mohamed in Queen's Park, west London/ and the schedule for actions in June. Join us and let the British and American government know that victims of the "war on terror" have not been forgotten. Read more >>

29-05-2008 10:16

Food And Climate Change Day of Action - London

A London action for the Food And Climate Change Day of Action Read more >>

28-05-2008 22:41

Benefit Party at Bowl Court Squat for Riseup.net and ASS

Music and Lights Saturday 31st May @ Bowl Court Squat, Plough Yard, Near
Drunken Monkey off Shoreditch High Street/Gt. Eastern St junction
9pm-2am

Electro,funk and more!

Its at the Rampart collective's new space thats just had its court date so check it before its too late! Read more >>

27-05-2008 14:49

Please help to stop the UK's first vegetable oil power plant

The company Blue NG has applied for planning permission to build the UK's first vegetable oil power plant in the UK, in Beckton, Newham. They plan a total of eight such plants overall. They specifically refer to burning palm oil, as well as rapeseed oil and jatropha oil in that plant. See below for details of forthcoming protests against those plans. Read more >>

27-05-2008 12:15

UNISON Public Meeting, 11th June: Save our services in Lambeth!

Speakers include:
Mark Serwotka – General Secretary, PCS
Alan Walter – Secretary, Defend Council Housing
Heenal Rajani – Lambeth UNISON
Barbara Glosby – Lambeth Pensioners Association
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27-05-2008 11:26

The Tools Of Greenwashing: Astroturfs

Questioning and exposing the greenwashing activities of corporations, in particular, is something that the seasoned cynic makes light of; but sometimes our job is made more difficult, not so much by the quality of the greenwashing being used, but by the sheer weight of apparent “public” opinion supporting the views of the corporations.

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27-05-2008 08:47

Fitwatch at Carnival Against the Arms Trade

4th June, 12 Noon, The Level, Brighton

The Forward Intelligence Teams seem to really love anti arms trade campaigners. Having already made their presence felt through years of DSEi protests, they have also long been a fixture at EDO demos. More recently, they have been travelling further afield, and have been spotted at St Athans demos in Wales, and the Heckler and Koch protests in Nottingham. Read more >>

26-05-2008 20:39

Southfields Get Total Oil Out of Burma Protest

Six protesters demonstrated at the Southfields Total Station, 262 Wimbledon Park Road on 21st May 2008. They were protesting against the French oil and gas giant's 500 million dollar a year funding for the brutal military regime in Burma. The money just goes to the evil junta not the poor people of Burma. The regime has allocated just 5 million dollars to cyclone relief, whilst it earned 2 billion dollars in gas exports in 2007. Read more >>

26-05-2008 18:09

Calling all Activists, Artists and Astronauts for Day of Action against G8

Do you Screenprint? Make Music? Street Art? Perform? Do you like to bake Cookies?
The 5th July 2008 will be your chance to take to the streets and be part of a creative intervention in Croydon. Come together with lots of other artists, activists and alternative astronauts, to create a disturbance in the normal structure of time and space and show your support for the protests against the G8 in Japan. Read more >>

26-05-2008 15:45

America facilitating for the UK Census?

UK-USA 2011 UK CENSUS CONCERNS: The House of Commons Treasury Committee has expressed strong concerns that if the 2011 UK census is run by a US company that the data could be accessed by USA security and law enforcement agencies: Read more >>

26-05-2008 14:36

Post-Katrina documentary screenings &Occupied London #3 release, 28.5 @Bowls Crt

Occupied London presents... A screening of Dos Americas and Down But Not Out
by Upheaval Productions, followed by a talk with one of the film-makers. On the night, we will (finally!) be releasing our long-awaited #3!

7.30 pm Wednesday 28th of May at Bowls Court Social Center just off Plough Yard, 6 Bowl Court London EC2A Read more >>